On 28 February 1995, AUM members abducted Kiyoshi Kariya, 68, the chief clerk at the Meguro Public Notary Office, on a Tokyo street to question him about the whereabouts of his sister who wanted to leave the group. Kariya was given general anesthesia, which led to his death from heart failure. His body was burned in a microwave heating device.

- Murder of AUM member Taguchi (murder):

In early February 1989, AUM members killed Shuji Taguchi, 21, who had wanted to leave the group, at its complex in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture.

- Murder of AUM member Ochida (murder, damage to corpse):

On 30 January 1994, AUM members killed Kotaro Ochida, 29, who had helped a female member escape from the group 's complex in Kamikuishiki, Yamanashi Prefecture . His body was burned in a microwave heating device.

- Murder of AUM member Tomita (murder):

In early July 1994, AUM members killed Toshio Tomita, 27, whom the cult group suspected was a spy against the group, at its complex in Kamikuishiki.

- Murder of company employee Hamaguchi with VX gas (murder):

On 12 December 1994, AUM members killed Tadahito Hamaguchi, 28, whom the cult suspected was a spy, with highly toxic VX gas on an Osaka street.

On 4 January 1995, AUM members attempted to kill Hiroyuki Nagaoka, head of the cult' s victims' association, by splashing VX gas onto his neck on a Tokyo street.

- Attempted murder of lawyer Takimoto (attempted murder):

On 9 May 1994, AUM members attempted to kill lawyer Taro Takimoto by injecting sari n nerve gas into the ventilator of his car at a parking area outside a district court while he was attending the trial of civil suit against the group.

AUM members completed construction of a chemical plant to mass- produce sarin n erve gas by December 1994 at the Kamikuishiki complex to kill a large number of people.

- Manufacturing of guns (violation of law regulating gun production): AUM members produced gun parts and one prototype gun in 1994 and 1995 as part of a failed attempt to mass produce automatic rifles.

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